Oh the Strawberries

My favorite page of all....i just love this pic!!!!!

















Our 4th Anniversary, Nags Head

A few more

Here are a few more

One of the first times i left Mason at home with Jason this is what i came home to. While Jason was putting the trash on the street Mason was standing on the curb, he had just really learned to walk, well i really don't know the rest of the story but i think this says it all.









Mason's first fathers day in Nags Head















Nags Head













Mason's first haircut, sorry its sideways



















first trip to snowshoe, first year i was actually scared to ski. I grew up skiing but this time all i could think about was how bad it would suck to take care of a baby with a broken arm or leg.. so i decided to take it a little easy when i was half way down a black diamond....yes i climbed back up to the top:)

In need of some inspiration

With baby #2 here life can be very overwhelming at times. I feel like I constantly say "in a minute, or after I get done feeding Khloe" all day long to mason. It is a constant battle within myself to make sure I am spending as much time with Mason as possible. I have been including him in on more daily routines lately, he loves to help me cook especially when he gets to pour the ingredients in the bowl. He is also pretty good at helping me do the laundry...well not the folding part but he tries!! I know with a little time things will get easier but til then i just keep reminding myself i am doing the best i can, if only i had a maid to keep the house together my problems would be solved!! Well with two kids comes a feeling of "needing a break" a little more often. Doing something crafty has always been my escape or sanity. It is what I truly love to do for myself, however, I am so tired i am having a hard time being creative when i do get a minute. I have been going through some old scrapbook pages for some much needed inspiration. Plus i spend a lot of time working on these pages and I never show them to anyone beyond my mother, mother-in-law and husband becuase my craft room is always such a mess, so I thought I would share a few.


Found this clear sticker at a local scrapbook store, it is really neat. It has top movies and actors, the price of gas and basic foods, the president other important people, and top news stories of 2007, the year Mason was born. How neat will it be when he is much much older to look back and see these facts (also a pic from the hospital).
I was able to find these stickers for the year i was born and his daddy...just haven't gotten around to doing anything with them yet.




2008 Halloween













Some bath time fun
















Pregnant with Mason











You can't read the story in the pic, its at the bottom, but I was on the phone with Jason's aunt around 11pm. Mason had found a bag with a few pieces of chocolate in it. You must first know that this kid LLLLLLOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEESSSS chocolate but he calls it CHOC. He came into the computer room looking like this. Yes it was 11pm. He was so happy but most of all he liked the sound his hands made as he squished them together. He was a mess to clean up but not as much of a mess as my couch:)

How we met:)

I have been scrapbooking for many years, long before I had children. I actually have scrapbooks from highschool filled with homecomings, birthdays, and gradweeks. I have always focused on the pictures, and I have always tried to get as many pics on a single page as possible. I don't do much journaling mainly because I hate my handwriting. A lightbulb went off in my head the other day while I was flipping through a scrapbooking magazine, yes that is something you can do with one hand while breastfeeding:), it isn't always about the pics, it's more about the story of that particular moment in time. Life goes by so fast and one way to capture a moment is with a picture, but each picture has a story that needs to be told. So I have decided, bad handwriting and all, I need to tell more stories and not worry so much about getting the best picture or about squeezing a million pics on a page. After all aren't I making these to help tell stories from my past, so my kids and their kids can see where they come from and what we were like back in "the good old days". So my first attempt to tell more of a story and capture a moment from my past.

It dawned on me the other day that I had never scrapbooked a page for just me and Jason. I have plenty of pages with Jason in them, but not one of just me and Jason. Since I am working more on telling stories why not start with the story of how Jason and I met. I think this page will be a wonderful page to add to my book, I think this will be a wonderful page for my kids to read about how we met. And the picture, nothing fancy, taken at the trailer on our 5th anniversary:)

Baby Girl's first scrapbook page

By this time when I was pregnant with Mason I had 2 full scrapbooks ready to just add pictures. This unfortunately isn't the case this time. I have found myself trying to get everything scrapbooked from the last year or so that I haven't had time to do like holidays and vacations. But last night I decided to stop and work with some of the new little girl stuff I have been picking up. The picture doesn't do justice for the colors of the striped paper, but I fell in love with it. The bird at the bottom is the theme for her nursery (I say her because she doesn't have a name yet) Anyways it was fun to take a break from the pictures i feel i "must scrap" and be creative with my new little girl stuff!